To-Morrow : A Peaceful Path to Real Reform

by Hall,Sir Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415317474
• ISBN10: 0415317479
• Edition: Original
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Ebenezer Howard'sTo-Morrowis deservedly the most famous single publication in the history of modern town planning. Published in 1898, it was repeatedly republished under its more familiar titleGarden Cities of To-Morrow, and translated into many other languages. Howard founded the Garden City Association, today the Town and Country Planning Association, in 1899; it generated a movement that spawned garden cities and garden suburbs in countries as diverse as France and Argentina, Germany and Japan, Russia and the United States. In its homeland, it led to the construction of nearly thirty government-financed new towns after World War Two, including examples as notable as Stevenage, Harlow and Milton Keynes. YetTo-Morrowhas never since been published in its original form Now, to celebrate the centenary of the first garden city at Letchworth, the Town and Country Planning Association has performed a service to planners everywhere by initiating the republication infacsimile form of the very scarce original first edition ofTo-Morrow. Accompanied by a running scholarly commentary on the text, and by a newly-written editorial introduction and postscript, jointly written by three leading commentators on Howard's life and workTo-Morrowwill immediately become a compulsory purchase for every serious student and practitioner of planning and for teachers and students of modern social, economic and political history.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Commentators' Introduction	p. 1
The Facsimile	p. 9
Introduction	p. 16
The Town-Country Magnet	p. 30
The Revenue of Garden City, and how it is obtained - The Agricultural Estate	p. 42
The Revenue of Garden City - Town Estate	p. 54
The Revenue of Garden City - General Observations on its Expenditure	p. 60
Further Details of Expenditure on Garden City	p. 74
Administration	p. 86
Semi-Municipal Enterprise - Local Option - Temperance Reform	p. 96
Pro-Municipal Work	p. 106
Administration - A Bird's Eye View	p. 116
Some Difficulties Considered	p. 120
A Unique Combination of Proposals	p. 128
The Path followed up	p. 142
Social Cities	p. 154
The Future of London	p. 172
Water Supply	p. 182
Index	p. 192
Postscript	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 219
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